[T-Bone Texan]

I read that in Russia under communism, the average number of abortions per woman was 8.

[NorseViking]

AFAIK it peaked in mid-1960s at 6 million. In 1989 there were four and a half million abortions. In 2015 roughly 450 000. Over the last decade the number decreases by 8-15% each year.